Sunday, July 24, 2011

Shutterfly Photo Books – For Free!

Every year since Frog Prince and I have gotten married, we’ve made “year-in-review” photo books to highlight and capture our year together. Over the past week I’ve been putting the finishing touches on our 4th year together book!! I am so excited to share it with Frog Prince next Thursday for our anniversary.

Making this book, I had a chance to try out Shutterfly’s new custom path books! I’ve made many photo books with Shutterfly before, and while I’ve always loved how our books turn out, some of the layout pages were challenging to work with because I wanted to tweak this or that.

With the new custom path books, I could do all the tweaking I wanted. While this is certainly more time consuming, the things you can do to make the photo book what you want are incredible. You can resize photos, add text boxes where ever you wish, and they have fun new “stickers” that allow you to add a little something extra to your photo book.

We’ve used Shutterfly products time and time again – from Christmas cards to invitations and have always been happy with the final product. In fact, we even made a photo book as our guest book for our wedding and folks could sign it “yearbook style”. I also love that they are constantly responding to consumer feedback and trying to improve their products.

The folks at Shutterfly have contacted me about giving 10 of you free 8x8 inch, 20-page hardcover photo books! I absolutely love this size book – it’s perfect for a gift, for a shelf or a coffee table. Now you have the chance to try out their new custom path photo book and make your own book of memories.

10 (yes, 10!!) lucky winners will each win a code that is good for a free photo book from Shutterfly! Code offer is good until September 1, 2011.Applicable taxes, shipping and handling charges will apply.

Mandatory Entry: Simply leave a comment telling me what photo book you would make if you won!

For all comments, make sure that your email address is activated or left in the comment box so that I can get in touch with you if you are chosen as a winner.

Comments will close on Wednesday, July 27 at 11:59pm. 10 winners will be chosen with a random number generator in R (statistical software), announced on Facebook between July 28-31, 2011, and will be contacted by email. Please note that winners must respond within 48 hours of being announced/contacted or another winner will be drawn.

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I received compensation in the form of a free photobook from Shutterfly in exchange for this post; however, the views and opinions expressed are my own. If you have a blog and are interested in a free photo book from Shutterfly, Go to http://goo.gl/K5hUC.

I just found this website and cannot wait to make some of the cool dishes!! Thank you for offering the shutterfly giveaway! I would like to make a book about our summer vacation to Colorado, we rode bikes, and hiked and rode ATVs!!

Oh my goodness, I love shutterly! I just discovered them right after I had Nyla last July and it's been great!!!I would love to get her a "year-in-review" book for her first year with us. We've taken so many pictures, I would love to get them into a book!

I would make a photo book of my daughter's first 2 years for myself to keep. I've made her an album, but I won't want to part with it once she graduates. :) And I've always wanted to try these out too! Thanks! I really enjoy your blogs and have found lots of recipes to use as "keepers" in our house!

I love photo books! I've just made three this weekend. I just saw Shutterfly's new format and would love to win one! I'd make a photo book for our friends of our vacation this past January. What a great Christmas gift!

I have an 8x8 photobook made and ready to be ordered for my son. It's Months 1-3. I already have made a Waiting on Baby book and a Newborn (1st Month) book. I absolutely love my Shutterfly Photo Books!!!

I really love the year is review idea for the photo book. I like the idea of the years lined up on the bookshelf. I would have to start a little late...I have been married for 11 years and my kids are 6 and 7. Wish I started this long ago!rmdenniston at gmail.com

I would make a book celebrating my son's second year. We have one of my pregnancy/his first month and one of his first year, but he just turned two and we don't have the budget to order one right now. This would be great!

Every year I make year in reviews for each of the grandparents. I would love to get a jump start on the books and try out the new formats available. It looks like it would be great at adding some of those personal touches.

I would like to make a photo book for a friend from yoga class who's in the midst of chemo for breast cancer---I'd get all her yoga friends to hold signs with cheerful sayings and make them into a book for her.

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